This fifth novella in the series featuring Roz Benedict and Guy Attwood, and now Kate Sampson, provides a slightly different outlet for Roz's investigative urges and talents, following on from Compromised,Cut Off,Conflicts of Little Avail and Conjecture Most Macabre.
Roz, a former detective inspector, and her friend Kate Sampson have formed a detective agency which carries on business under the name 'Cops & Roz’s'. Guy, a university law lecturer, continues to act in an informal advisory capacity.
Cops & Roz’s standard diet of exposing adulterous spouses is interrupted by a new case from an unusual direction involving suspicions about sex attacks which have been taking place in the cathedral city of Lincoln in England. It’s unusual because the suspicions are those of a mother, Tara Anderson, that her son Ronan is the Kinky Linky, as the local press have nicknamed the culprit.
Tara is a successful businesswoman and Ronan is an artist whose works in the surrealist technique of frottage are becoming well-known. The weird thing is that the word ‘frottage’ has more than one meaning. Roz and Kate send Kate’s pretty daughter, journalist Polly, to an exhibition of Ronan’s works. The plan is that Polly may spot some odd behaviour suggesting that Ronan might be the Kinky Linky.
A complication soon arises and the investigation seems to be stalling. Roz decides the only way forward is to investigate the mother, their client Tara. Guy is able to put her in touch with a contact who may have information about Tara. Prompted by Roz, Tara reluctantly reveals that she was born into an orthodox religion with a backward culture and strict rules.
Roz delves further and makes a startling discovery. The incredible truth winkled out by Roz is sad in the extreme.
Life has been harder for some than for others. Hard knocks sometimes lead to unwise actions.
The foundations of Cops & Roz’s are rocked by an unexpected turn of events leading to an arrest and a dramatic police car chase. Will Roz and Kate be able to continue their partnership after such a traumatic thirty-six hours? Will a certain couple's relationship survive? Will life for one person ever be the same again?
As with all the stories in the Roz Benedict series, Le Frottage can be read alone.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Roz, a former detective inspector, and her friend Kate Sampson have formed a detective agency which carries on business under the name 'Cops & Roz’s'. Guy, a university law lecturer, continues to act in an informal advisory capacity.
Cops & Roz’s standard diet of exposing adulterous spouses is interrupted by a new case from an unusual direction involving suspicions about sex attacks which have been taking place in the cathedral city of Lincoln in England. It’s unusual because the suspicions are those of a mother, Tara Anderson, that her son Ronan is the Kinky Linky, as the local press have nicknamed the culprit.
Tara is a successful businesswoman and Ronan is an artist whose works in the surrealist technique of frottage are becoming well-known. The weird thing is that the word ‘frottage’ has more than one meaning. Roz and Kate send Kate’s pretty daughter, journalist Polly, to an exhibition of Ronan’s works. The plan is that Polly may spot some odd behaviour suggesting that Ronan might be the Kinky Linky.
A complication soon arises and the investigation seems to be stalling. Roz decides the only way forward is to investigate the mother, their client Tara. Guy is able to put her in touch with a contact who may have information about Tara. Prompted by Roz, Tara reluctantly reveals that she was born into an orthodox religion with a backward culture and strict rules.
Roz delves further and makes a startling discovery. The incredible truth winkled out by Roz is sad in the extreme.
Life has been harder for some than for others. Hard knocks sometimes lead to unwise actions.
The foundations of Cops & Roz’s are rocked by an unexpected turn of events leading to an arrest and a dramatic police car chase. Will Roz and Kate be able to continue their partnership after such a traumatic thirty-six hours? Will a certain couple's relationship survive? Will life for one person ever be the same again?
As with all the stories in the Roz Benedict series, Le Frottage can be read alone.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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